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And from this cluttered desk

by Robin Houghton on September 23, 2019

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I admit it – I’m very nosy about other people’s workspaces. Writers and artists especially. So I loved Josephine Corcoran’s recent post about her ‘cluttered desk’ – although I thought…

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Kay Syrad, Josephine Corcoran – short reviews

by Robin Houghton on November 26, 2018

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A couple of brief reviews of collections I’ve been reading: Inland – Kay Syrad  (Cinnamon, 2018) (£8.99) There’s nothing predictable or familiar in this collection. Just when you feel you’re…

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Poetry vs DIY, plus a few upcoming deadlines

by Robin Houghton on November 24, 2016

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It’s easy to lose the rhythm of blogging – I’ve been lacking the motivation lately, partly out of a feeling of ‘what is there really to say that makes a…

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An update on submissions, readings etc and a nail-biting aside

by Robin Houghton on June 2, 2015

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My fingernails are looking reasonable at the moment, which is pretty good considering that the house-moving stressometer is probably at its highest right now. A short aside about nailbiting –…

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News of readings, launches

by Robin Houghton on May 13, 2015

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Pamphlet launch This evening Telltale Press goes global! Well, it makes its debut in the southwest of England, anyway… Siegfried Baber launches his debut pamphlet, When Love Came To the…

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Christmas reading material

by Robin Houghton on December 15, 2014

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I can’t tell you how great it will be to get our dining room back in order – currently it’s awash with piles of music, half-made Christmas cards, newspaper spread…

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Vanguard Readings – Six Poets & Anthology Launch

by Robin Houghton on November 21, 2014

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Richard Skinner’s excellent Vanguard Readings at The Bear in Camberwell generally hosts both poets and prose writers, but last night was a poetry special. Somehow I managed to arrived only…

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Swindon Festival of Poetry

by Robin Houghton on July 7, 2014

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Hurray! First of all I managed to snag a place on the Don Share workshop in October in Swindon (before it sold out) and then thanks to a prompt from…

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Where blogging fits into the writing week

by Robin Houghton on January 20, 2014

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How does your writing week look? Mine can typically include things like blog posts a client email newsletter a lot of emails (sent and replied to) poetry writing/redrafting/editing commenting on blogs…

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The year that was, plus a T S Eliot Prize-themed workshop

by Robin Houghton on January 6, 2014

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So many good end-of-year review-type blog posts in the last week or so. A few I particularly enjoyed: Anthony Wilson’s ‘Most read life-saving poems in 2013’ which gave me a…

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